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Republican Roy Moore lost to Democrat Doug Jones in the 2017 Alabama Senate special election after a series of sexual misconduct allegations surfaced against him. Despite that, he's running again, making Republicans nervous that he may win the nomination --…

Former Judge Roy Moore announced he'll run for the US Senate seat in Alabama again following his failed bid in 2017 after three women alleged he sexually abused them when they were teenagers decades ago. Moore has denied the allegations.…

It could be worse, Alabama. We could be North Carolina. No, we could be this North Carolina. “Contrast (ethical North Carolina Republicans) with the paid political mercenaries working in Bladen and Robeson counties. The Board of Elections should start the election over.” To recap, that’s a collection of current opinions from, in order, Andrew Reynolds, a political science professor at the University of North Carolina; Robin Hayes, chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party and a former member of Congress; Charles P. Pierce, a veteran columnist at Esquire; and the editorial board of The Charlotte Observer. That’s why longtime watchers of Tar Heel politics are pointing their fingers directly at Southern Republicans who are devoted to “the principle of clinging to power.” I don’t blame them, but let’s be fair. North Carolina doesn’t own the patent on political corruption and electoral mayhem. At Illinois State University, the Institute for Corruption Studies says this: “It is all bad news for such states as Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Jersey and New York” because they rank so highly in most forms of corruption. And that doesn’t include the stench of the 2011-12 corruption trials of legislators accused of shenanigans with a gambling bill in the Alabama Legislature. For Alabama, that’s the lesson trickling down from the Carolina mountains.

It's hard, in a place like Alabama in the age of us against them and them against us, to cling to the belief that justice is blind as one of those cave fish. Those things are every bit as vision-impaired as justice herself. Lawmakers across the state went to jail for double dipping and no-show jobs. Governors went to jail. Politicians like Mike Hubbard and Del Marsh spoke of the cleaning up Montgomery, and the GOP took Alabama like Sherman took Georgia. And every time somebody is busted - Democrat or Republican - the cry is predictable. He beat up on Alabama's Sessions because criminal prosecutions of a couple of Republicans could threaten the party's hold on Congress. Two easy wins now in doubt because there is not enough time. What's important is that the president just suggested that prosecutions be determined by election dates, that guilt or innocence should be determined by party. It makes it hard to hold on to those beliefs that make us who we are.

Disgraced former Senate candidate Roy Moore of Alabama is the latest Republican to meet Sacha Baron Cohen's hyper-macho Israeli anti-terror expert character. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc About: MSNBC is the premier destination for in-depth analysis of daily headlines, insightful…

How President Trump feels about due process appears to depend on whether he or his associates are the ones being investigated. As a candidate in 2016, Trump declared that “an attack on law enforcement is an attack on all Americans." Much of the president’s rhetoric assumes that the arms of the state are infallible, and that its targets are assumed guilty. He called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States; he has called for killing the families of suspected terrorists; he insisted that Muslims accused of terrorism should be tortured. The president is happy to characterize entire groups of people, such as black Americans, Latinos, and Muslims, as potential criminals. When it comes to racial or religious discrimination, no amount of empirical evidence seems sufficient, but no proof is necessary for the president to be absolutely certain of the innocence of his supporters. When it comes to Trump's associates, the president becomes a self-styled expert in due process, and a devotee of the idea that one is innocent until proven guilty—or in some cases, even after. Trump has called Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation into Russian interference, which has already led to multiple guilty pleas of former Trump associates, a "witch hunt;" described the prosecution of his former National-Security Adviser Michael Flynn "very unfair;" described his former campaign manager Paul Manafort, charged with financial crimes by the special counsel as "a good man;" and he pardoned Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio after the sheriff was held in contempt of court in a case involving racial profiling of Latinos. After a number of women went public with accusations that the Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore sought sexual relationships with them when he was an adult and they were teenagers, Trump supported Moore, saying, “Look, he denies it. For Trump and those he considers his allies, no scrupulous adherence to due process is sufficient, and no crime can justify prosecution.

The Story: The Washington Post, on March 23, ran an explosive piece on alleged manuveurings by supporters of Judge Roy Moore prior to a special...

The Story: The Washington Post, on March 23, ran an explosive piece on alleged manuveurings by supporters of Judge Roy Moore prior to a special...

JAMES LAWLER DUGGAN / Reuters 1. Thou shall not covet thy neighbor’s wife. Thou shall covet thy neighbor’s daughter, especially that one who works the register at Bath & Body Works after school lets out. Thou shall park way over at the Walmart so the overzealous mall cops won’t “run the plate” again. Thou shall fill thy pockets with bountiful gift certificates to Justice, Aeropostale, Forever 21 and Claire’s. Speaking of which, why isn’t there a store called “Forever Under 21”? Between the cellphone case bejewler kiosk and Bath & Body Works thou shall brandish a bag full of Wetzel’s Pretzel Pizza Bitzes and moan, “Oh, these Wetzel’s Pretzel Pizza Bitzes are so delicious but I can’t possibly finish all these alone.” 7. Thou shall renew thy subscription to Seventeen to stay up on fresh lines like, “Hey, bae, where’s the rest of your squad?” 8. Why isn’t there a magazine called Under Seventeen? Breath mints.